Faculty/Author Profile

Lorin L. Reisner

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

New York, NY, USA

Lorin L. Reisner is a litigation partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York where his practice emphasizes white collar matters, government investigations, internal investigations and complex business litigation. He has almost three decades of experience in the private sector and public service. From January 2012 through June 2014, Mr. Reisner served as Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he supervised the investigation and prosecution of federal crimes by a team of more than 160 Assistant U.S. Attorneys. The areas under his supervision included securities and commodities fraud, complex fraud and cybercrime, public corruption, terrorism and violent crime. From 2009 until his appointment as Chief of the Criminal Division, Mr. Reisner served as the Deputy Director of the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. In that position, he helped set enforcement priorities, supervised the work of more than 900 investigative professionals nationwide and oversaw the trial and related litigation activity of the Enforcement Division. From 1996 through 2009, Mr. Reisner was a nationally-recognized litigation partner at a prominent law firm based in New York. Mr. Reisner served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1990-1994. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Milton Pollack of the Southern District of New York from 1986-1987, received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University in 1983 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986.